The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-12
"A HOLOCAUST.
The Alcazar Theatre, Harley,
Wisconsin, Burned,
AND WITH PART OF THE TOWN
Several Lives Lost and an Immense
destruction Of PrOperty-Other
News Notes.
A Holocaust

HAULEY, Wis, July 10.-A fire broke
out at the Alcazar Theatre, at 8 O'Clock
last night, and within an hour the en-
tire business part of town was in flames
while eleven persons persisted in the
| theatre. The charred remains of nine
people have been taken from the ruins.
The loss in full is $500 600. The Aicazar
was variety theatre, chiefly frequented
! by miners, and was one of the resorts
of unsaVory repute associated with no
torious dance houses of the mining
region. Only a small audience had
gathered when the fire broke out, and
they scrambled out in a hurry. Sew
eral actors, however, rushed up stairs to
save their wardrObes, and when they
sought to escape found that they were
bemmed in on all sides, the flames hay
ing spread through the wooden building
with Incredible rapldity. How they
struggled to fee will never be known,
as none of them, except Sadie Wells
and Mabel Powers, we're ever seen
again. The former appeared at sec.
ond story window and called piteously
upon the crowd outside to save her.
Before a hand could be raised the
flames reached her, and communicated
TO ner clothing. She made a frantic
effort to jump through the window,
then with piercing shrek, fell into
the furnace below. Mabel Powers had
reached third story window. she
jumped. and was so badly injured that
her recovery is doubtful. Among those
who persisted in the theatre were:
Frank Young. Sadie McCabe, and
Jackson, colCred comedians, Tillie
Moore, song and dance artlste;
Mabel Goodrich and husband
Sadie Wells, Mrs. Fenton and two or
three others, whose names are not
known. The Alcazar was in the very
heart of the city. It was a mass OF
flames IN very short time. The fire
seemed to leap from building to build
ing, until several blocks became roar
ing oven. Itwas not long before every
business house between Third and Fifth
Avenues was in flames. All efforts to
get the fire under control seemed
futile. The fire department, reinforced
by scores of volunteers, sent it's puny
streams against the walls of flames, but
had to retreat as the fire swept on resist
lessly. 1t did not stop until material
for it to fe d on was lack
ing. The individual losses are
as follows: Moore, McFarran & Co.,
and clothing, $4,000;
Agnew & Co., general hardware, $40
000; Heinemann Bros. d Co., dry
goods, $25, COO; Cohn & MINI, general |
$4,000; Carrothers Bros, stock of |
liquors, 5000; J. B. Langlois, saloon
and household goods, $1,000; Lemon & |
Foster, drugs, $4,000; proprietors of the
Fair, $1,000; John r. Burton,
sixteen buildings, $4,000; Charles
Leclaire, AlcaZar Theatre, $25,C-0; |
D. P. Mcneil, saloon and household,
$1,000; P. S. Burdie, wholesale liquors,
IS 600; A. E. Gallagher, law library, So
700; Blake Bros, groceries, building,
Ill COO; G. Perrin, restaurant, So 600; f.
A. Day, hardware, S. 600: J. Ridgeman,
saloon AMI restaurant, $1,000.
HURLEY, W., July 11.-Fourteen bodies
have been recovered from the ruins
If the Alcazar Theatre. Identification
s utterly impossible, as nothing but the
.runks of bodies and an occasional arm
,r leg is found. Three persons were
atally injured by jumping from win
lows, making the total deaths II. The
otal loss is about $3.50, COO. Insurance,
Ibout $4,000. Five blocks, embracing
seventy buildings, were laid in ashes.
CHICAGO, July 10.-A special from
Ii OAWOOus mlCA's dCIOoS VIC 1lf6I lIOu
Hurley, Wis, says: Seventeen people
ost their lives in the Alcazar fire. The
following additional names of the dead
are given: j. W. Vanguick, Samuel
Haley and Laurie Brainerd. It is prob
able that John Jarrett, stage carpenter,
will die from his injuries. Jennie Sher-
den, an actress who leaped from the
bird story, is also severely hurt. She
says that she tried to persuade several
others to jump, but they delayed, and
he floor fell in taking them with it.